Bach Festival Leipzig in 2018

This year's Bach Festival is to be held from 08 to 17 June 2018, under the motto: "cycles". This year, special emphasis will be placed on Leipzig's connections with the USA . For this reason, the ARK Church Choir from Baltimore, Youth Choirs from the Leipzig Opera and the Leipzig Gewandhaus and Boston Youth Symphony Orchestra shall perform together, thus demonstrating the transatlantic cultural exchange. The US diplomatic mission in Germany with the US consulate general in Leipzig is to take over patronage for the Bach Festival in 2018.

Leipzig's Bach Festival in 2019

Bach Competition

The world's most important Johann Sebastian Bach competition for young interpreters was launched in 1950. Since 1996, it has been taking place every other year in June in three alternating subjects: piano, harpsichord and violin.

The competition is open to instrumentalists and singers between the ages of 16 and 33.